I’ve been working on a history of advice subreddits and subreddit-plot.py generates a useful bubble plot.

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Bill Ackman is rattling the sabres of his legal team in a 77-page “legal demand.” Bizarrely, he has doubled down on the claims that his …

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If I’m going to buy a cheap Chinese product, why not get it for a fraction of Amazon’s cost? That’s the thought …

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A topic of my online community course is related to newcomers: is there such a thing as a stupid question? (We discuss RTFM, FAQ slaps …

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A few weeks ago I spoke with journalist Stephen Harrison for his article “Is copying from Wikipedia plagiarism?”

For those interested, I provide the full …

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On TheoryOfReddit Brian Keegan has posted an open letter regarding Reddit’s tightening of their API access, especially the cutting off of Pushshift’s access …

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Like the startling clap that follows distant rumbles of thunder, artificial intelligence (AI) has arrived. Stunning images and precocious prose can be generated at the …

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I often want a simple terminal-based world clock for scheduling. I finally scratched my itch and wrote a little script using Python’s awesome pendulum …

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For the past two years I’ve been working on Reddit related questions such as:

1. Do researchers’ ethical disguise of Redditors’ posts work?
2. How many …

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In a 99% Invisible episode, Avery Trufelman stated that America’s 19th-century preoccupation with the self and self-help was reflected in the fact that Webster …

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